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You have been captured by Greek slave traders and are being taken aboard their boat to begin the
journey to Athens where you will be sold into slavery. You have no idea where you are being
taken or what will happen to you. Use this sheet to write about your feelings. You could write a
short story or a diary extract.
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A new life awaits!
You are in the city of Athens, which is completely different to everything you have been used to
in your life so far. You are about to be sold as a slave. Use this sheet to write about your feelings.
You could write a diary extract or a letter to a loved one who you are about to be separated from.
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A slave’s day
A Greek slave’s day is packed full of tasks. Use this sheet to create an itinerary or timetable of a
day in the life of a slave in ancient Greece. You could pick one of the oiketai (household slaves)
or a slave working on a farm.
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The Greeks have a word for it! (1)
Lots of words in English have their roots in words from ancient Greek. Many of these words are
combinations of two Greek words. Some of them are even used for ideas or things that the
ancient Greeks themselves would not have known about, like photography!
Can you match the word with the correct defintion? Draw a line linking the word to its definition
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Abacus
Acrobat
Aerial
Agony
Allergy
Alphabet
Anagram
Anonymous
Antibiotic
Apology
A word or phrase made by rearranging all the letters in another word
or phrase. For example, lemon and melon
From the Greek words ana meaning ‘from bottom to top’ and grammat
meaning ‘letter’
Very bad pain
From the Greek word agōn meaning ‘struggle’
An acknowledgement of being in the wrong or being sorry
From the Greek words apo meaning ‘away from’ and logos
meaning ‘speech’
The usual order of letters in a language
From the first and second letters in the Greek alphabet: alpha and beta
A medicine used to fight illnesses caused by bad bacteria
From the Greek words anti meaning ‘against’ and biōtikos meaning
‘fit for life’
Relating to, or in, the air
From the Greek word āerios meaning ‘air’
A high sensitivity to a specific thing, such as a food type, which causes
a person to become ill
From the Greek words allos meaning ‘other’ and ergon meaning ‘action’
A simple counting machine that uses beads that are slid along rods
From the Greek word abax meaning ‘counting board’
A performer who does tricks such as somersaults and cartwheels
From the Greek words akros meaning ‘high’ and bat meaning ‘walk’
Having an unknown name or author, or being without character
From the Greek word anōnumos meaning ‘nameless’
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The Greeks have a word for it! (2)
Lots of words in English have their roots in words from ancient Greek. Many of these words are
combinations of two Greek words.
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Archaeology
Astronaut
Athlete
Bible
Biography
Butter
Catastrophe
Chaos
Circus
Comma
Crisis
A state of disorder or confusion
From the Greek word khaos meaning ‘gaping void’
A person who takes part in sport or exercise
From the Greek word āthlētēs meaning ‘contestant’
A travelling show which usually takes place in a large tent called
a Big Top, and which features acrobats and clowns
From the Greek word kirkos meaning ‘ring’
A punctuation mark used to separate clauses within a sentence
From the Greek word komma meaning ‘piece cut off’
A difficult situation often leading to a change
From the Greek word krisis meaning ‘to separate, judge’
A person who pilots a spacecraft
From the Greek words astron meaning ‘star’ and nautēs meaning ‘sailor’
The study of human life in the past
From the Greek words arkhaios meaning ‘ancient’ and logia meaning
‘study of’
A yellow fat made from cow’s milk that is spread on bread or
used in cooking
From the Greek words bous meaning ‘cow’ and tūros meaning ‘cheese’
A person’s life story
From the Greek words bios meaning ‘life’ and graphiā meaning
‘to write’
A terrible event
From the Greek word katastrophē meaning ‘ruin’
The religious book of Christian stories
From the Greek word biblion meaning ‘book’
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The Greeks have a word for it! (3)
Lots of words in English have their roots in words from ancient Greek. Many of these words are
combinations of two Greek words.
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Democracy
Demon
Dialogue
Dilemma
Dinosaur
Eclipse
Encyclopaedia
Energy
Enigma
Geography
Gigantic
Where one thing or person is hidden or obscured by another
From the Greek word ekleipsis meaning ‘to fail to appear’
Learning about the earth and its physical properties, and about the
effects that people have had on the earth
From the Greek words geō meaning ‘earth’ and graphiā meaning ‘to write’
Really big; huge; colossal
From the Greek word gigantikos meaning ‘giant’
A country where the people vote for the government
From the Greek words demos meaning ‘people’ and krátos meaning
‘power’ or ‘rule’
Something or someone that is puzzling or hard to explain
From the Greek word ainigma meaning ‘to speak in riddles’
To have lots of capacity for work or activity; or power
From the Greek word energeia meaning ‘active work’
A situation that requires a person to choose between two or more
difficult options
From the Greek word dilemma
An extinct reptile from the Mesozoic era
From the Greek words deinos meaning ‘monstrous’ and sauros
meaning ‘lizard’
A conversation between two or more people
From the Greek word dialogos meaning ‘conversation’
A book giving information about a wide range of different subjects
From the Greek words enkuklios paideia meaning ‘all-round education’
An evil being or devil
From the Greek word daimōn meaning ‘divine power’
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The Greeks have a word for it! (4)
Lots of words in English have their roots in words from ancient Greek. Many of these words are
combinations of two Greek words.
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Grammar
Guitar
Hierarchy
Hippopotamus
Idiot
Mathematics
Metre
Museum
Myth
Octopus
Pantomime
A traditional story
From the Greek word mythos meaning ‘story’
The telling of a story using different faces and gestures, without words;
a traditional funny play usually performed at Christmastime
From the Greek words panto meaning ‘all’ and mīmos meaning ‘mime’
A unit of distance that equals 100cm
From the Greek word métron meaning ‘measure’
The study or system of how language is constructed to make
sentences, including the use of different types of words and punctuation
From the Greek word grammatikē meaning ‘of letters’
An eight-legged sea creature
From the Greek word oktōpous meaning ‘eight-footed’
A building full of objects of interest that people can visit
From the Greek word Mouseion meaning ‘shrine of the Muses’
A large African animal that spends a lot of time in rivers
From the Greek words hippos meaning ‘horse’ and potamos
meaning ‘river’
An order of things or people arranged according to importance
From the Greek word hierarkhiā meaning ‘rule of a high priest’
Someone who is stupid or silly
From the Greek word idiōtēs meaning ‘private person’
A popular stringed musical instrument, played by strumming the fingers
across the strings
From the Greek word kithara for a stringed musical instrument
The study of measurement and relationships using numbers
From the Greek word mathēmatikē
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The Greeks have a word for it! (5)
Lots of words in English have their roots in words from ancient Greek. Many of these words are
combinations of two Greek words.
Can you match the word with the correct defintion? Draw a line linking the word to its definition
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Phobia
Photograph
Pirate
Poem
School
Skeleton
Stadium
Sympathy
Telescope
Theatre
Thesaurus
Zoo
A tube-shaped object using mirrors and lenses for seeing distant things
From the Greek word tēleskopos meaning ‘far-seeing’
The complete set of bones of a person or animal
From the Greek word skeletós meaning ‘dried up’
A place where wild animals are kept so that people can see them
From the Greek word zôion meaning ‘animal’
Feeling sorry for someone else when they are upset
From the Greek words syn meaning ‘with’ or ‘together’ and pathos
meaning ‘emotion’
A place where sporting events take place
From the Greek word stadion meaning ‘racetrack’
A reference book for finding alternative words with a similar meaning
From the Greek word thēsauros
A building with a stage where plays are performed
From the Greek word theatron meaning ‘place for viewing’
A place where children go to learn
From the Greek word skholē
A piece of creative writing often in verses and which sometimes rhymes
From the Greek word poiēma meaning ‘to create’
A picture taken by a camera
From the Greek words phos meaning ‘light’ and graphiā meaning ‘to write’
A person who attacks and robs ships at sea
From the Greek word peirātēs meaning ‘to attempt’
A very strong feeling of fear
From the Greek word phobos
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Eureka bingo!
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Choose 20 English words with ancient Greek roots from the selection on the ‘Greeks have a
words for it!’ activity sheets and write them into the grid above, one in each space.
Your teacher or one of your classmates will now call out words from the sheets at random for a
game of Eureka bingo! If the word is in your grid, cover it up or cross it out. If you are the first
person to match all of the words in your grid with those called out, you are the winner!
To make it more difficult, why not try using the definitions, rather than the words themselves?
Remember when you have covered all the words in your grid, the winning call is EUREKA!
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Greek maths - Pythagoras’ theorem (1)
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Ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras discovered that for
all right-angled triangles,
“The square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the
squares on the other two sides”
If a square is drawn on each side of a right-angled
triangle (like in the example, right) then
the area of squares a and b will add up
to the area of square c.
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This can be expressed as a2 + b2= c2
The hypotenuse is the longest side of a
right-angled triangle. The hypotenuse is
always opposite the right angle.
b
In the example (right), side a is 3cm long
and side b is 4cm long.
Using Pythagoras’ theorem of a2 + b2= c2 it is possible
to work out the length of side c.
c2 must equal 32 + 42
9 + 16 = 25 so c2 = 25
32 = 3 x 3 = 9, and 42 = 4 x 4 = 16
25 = 5 x 5 so c = 5cm
1) What is the length of side c?
5cm
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Use this box for your working
2) What is the length of side b?
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Greek maths - Pythagoras’ theorem (2)
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“The square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on
the other two sides”
This can be expressed as a2 + b2= c2
c is the longest side, or the hypotenuse, which is always opposite the right angle
Two of the triangles on this page are right-angled triangles in which all the measurements are
correct. The other three triangles have the wrong measurements. Can you work out which are the
two correct right-angled triangles?
Note: The triangles on this page are not drawn accurately and are not to scale.
18cm
24cm
25cm
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27cm
27cm
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30cm
11cm
10cm
16cm
12cm
Use a separate sheet for your working out.
Triangle _______ and triangle _______ are the right-angled triangles.
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